Will RC
Will RC
Will RC
I’m Will. For over a decade I’ve worked in technology and tech transformation across charities and social enterprises, healthcare, and in education. Welcome to my site. I mainly use this as a place to write out my (mostly tech-based) thoughts. I'm a firm believer that technology should be easier to understand for everyone, and this little corner of the internet is my way of trying to do that.
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This post is inspired by JP, who speaks about how Google has become an insessant nagging AI-pusher. The more and more we let “AI” in, the more liberties it seems to take. For me, this is crystalised perfectly by one thing. If you use...
As frequent readers might know, I have been playing around with this site for a while. In fact, I do it so often that non-frequent readers probably also know - lately I’ve talked more about changes to this site than I’ve talked about...
I have a little 9 month old, and every day we read to him. Some days, I’ll read a bilingual books be him - I’ll read English/French ones, and his mum reads him English/Bengali ones. I hadn’t even considered it, but it seems that when...
There’s something I’ve been trying to grapple with for a while. It’s become more insistent with the rise of AI, but it actually predates that. And for me, it crystallised with the new openSUSE Terms of Site. For those unfamiliar,...
I chop and change my website almost more than I actually write on it. For giggles, I thought I’d share what my current website setup and posting workflow is. This site uses Jekyll. I love it because I do almost all of my writing in...
While not necessarily a direct response to JA Westenberg’s post, her writing did make me think a lot about the way we stack up different technologies in our collective minds. It’s very good, you should go and read it. The link’s just...
I had a thought, actually while reading Shubham Bose’s The 49MB Web Page, about my use of RSS. The most radical thing you can do is refuse to be extracted. Close the tab. Use RSS. Let the bounce rate speak for itself. These are vanity...
I might have mentioned once or twice that I use Obsidian. One of the fantastic things about it, is the plethora of Community Plugins you can install to get your productivity setup just right. The thing is, it’s a bit of a double edged...
I loved reading this post from Mat Duggan about the continuing rise of Markdown as a way of creating content. A couple of paragraphs of his that really stood out to me: And none of that [the fact that Markdown doesn’t inherently allow...
I don’t know if it’s just because I watched Louis Theroux’s manosphere documentary last night and am feeling particularly despondent about the state of the post-truth world we live in, but I was scrolling through my RSS feed on the way...
I’m still trying to work out how I feel about this, so come on the journey with me… I work in the UK charity sector, and something I’ve been playing over in my mind the last couple of weeks is the OpenAI / Anthropic (ChatGPT/Claude)...
About as good a summation on the state of social media as I’ve read anywhere, there’s a lot that stuck with me from Technically Good’s post. But the bit that I’ve been turning over in my head was the explanation of network effects and...
The other day my Google Pixel 8 Pro just decided that neither Bluetooth nor WiFi were things it needed anymore. Apparently it’s a common issue with Pixel handsets. In any case, it put a real damper on the phone’s usefulness to me. I was...
I redid my website recently. I wanted quick and simple, so I used Bootstrap as the framework to throw it together. Bootstrap is great, I love it. I’ve used it on countless projects and I know what I’m getting and how to make it work. But...
One thing I’ve realised as I write more is that I write too much. Specifically I mean, when it comes to blogging, I have a tendency to try and say too many things in one post. Recently I talked about a podcast on VPNs that I’d listened...